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• My greatest fear is that the spirit of religion is lurking in so many churches today. Instead of men and women of God preaching about and applying Kingdom principles to everyday living, they have given the spirit of religion the power to cloud the path of others.

  Myles Munroe

  Men, Greatest Fear, Clouds

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• What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?

  William Gurnall

  Reading, Mean, Wine

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• Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

  Stendhal

  Heart, Eye, Mad

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• There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Hands, Offending

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• Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Self, Forget You

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• One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

  Hillary Clinton

  World, Collecting, Taxes

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• After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

  Preston Sturges

  Couple, Fun, Directors

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• I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

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• Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

  Donald Cargill

  Love, Believe, Reading

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• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

  Oswald Chambers

  Reality, Preaching The Gospel, People

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.694, Discovery House

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• At any given time, on our band Drive-by Truckers' shows there might be someone who's eight years old or 80 years old in the audience. Some nights there are a lot of girls in the audience, some nights not. It's so unpredictable, but I like that. A lot of Republicans come see us. I've got many friends and family that are Republicans, so our following definitely cuts across the political lines and all of that. Which puts us in the unique position of not just preaching to the converted. I respect and value that.

  Patterson Hood

  Girl, Cutting, Unique

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• To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Character

  Source: www.monergism.com

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• People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.

  John Lennox

  Thinking, People, Important

  Source: www.christiantelegraph.com

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• If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

  Dan Mangan

  People, Important, Use

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• It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Strong, Doctrine

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Regret, Godly

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• When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Loss, Opportunity

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 80”, p.273, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.

  John Wesley

  Life, Sunday, Order

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• But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Law, Grace

  "A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians".

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• If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.

  Paris Reidhead

  God, Christian, America

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• No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when we tell them that they - and we - are ungodly people who cannot impress God or escape his tribunal. Until our preaching of the law has exposed our hearts and God's holiness at that profound level, our hearers will never flee to Christ alone for safety even if they come to us for advice.

  Michael Horton

  Heart, Law, Profound

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.130, Baker Books

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• It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

  Martin McDonagh

  Like You, Feels, Jokes

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Trying, Tools

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

  John Wesley

  Order, Soul, Religion

  John Wesley (1871). “Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe”, p.158

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• If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Christian, Church

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